Finland Compensates Energy Intensive Companies

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €687 million Finnish scheme to partially compensate energy-intensive companies for higher electricity prices resulting from the impact of carbon prices on electricity generation costs (so-called ‘indirect emission costs’), incurred between 2021 and 2025, under the EU Emission Trading System (‘ETS’).  The measure will benefit…

Chemical Attack?

Chemical Attack

Russian propaganda has always been renowned for its vivid imagination, and for fabricating pretexts to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the war, there have been many such provocations, including fakes about atrocities committed by the Ukrainian military and about the bombing of residential buildings, chemical attacks, and more. But nobody believes the Kremlin’s…

Brussels “Eat Festival”

After its special “Dinners” edition in 2021, the Eat Festival returns from 29 September to 2 October, in the heart of the Gare Maritime in Tour & Taxis.  Over the 4 days of the festival, more than 60 gastronomic artisans offer the best of Brussels to the public.  It’s an invitation to discover the culinary…